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" Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully-modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of branches and branchlets and sprigs of flowers. There are also solid coral hemispheres like domes among... "
The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Applications: Being a ... - Page 490
by Jabez Hogg - 1886 - 764 pages
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American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume 62

1851 - 510 pages
...some large-leaved plant just unfolding : when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 37

1856 - 606 pages
...abundant — shrubbery, tufts of rushes, the oddlyshaped cactuses, beds of pinks, feathery mosses, the lichen clinging to the rock, and the fungus, in all its varieties, have each their representatives ; while here and there stately masses of madrepore rise to a height of six...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 3

1852 - 446 pages
...some largeleaved plant just unfolding : when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 52

1852 - 386 pages
...some large leaved plant just unfolding ; when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a net work...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 52

1852 - 422 pages
...some large leaved plant just unfolding ; when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a net work...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 3

1852 - 450 pages
...some largeleaved plant just unfolding : when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 3

1852 - 460 pages
...some largeleaved plant just unfolding : when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of...
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Kidd's Own Journal, Volume 1

1852 - 436 pages
...some large-leaved plant just unfolding. When alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polypi flowers. The cactus — the lichen clinging to the rock — and the fungus in all its varieties,!) ave their numerous representatives. Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully...
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On Coral Reefs and Islands

James Dwight Dana - 1853 - 152 pages
...some large-leaved plant just unfolding : when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 37

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1856 - 602 pages
...abundant — shrubbery, tufts of rushes, the oddlyshaped cactuses, beds of pinks, feathery mosses, the lichen clinging to the rock, and the fungus, in all its varieties, have each their representatives ; while here and there stately masses of madrepore rise to a height of six...
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